An incomplete guide to ant blogs
Roberta Gibson is an entomologist and writer/blogger. She earned her Bachelor degree in Forest Biology from State University of New York College of Environmental Science...
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Central European IUSSI Meeting from March 19 to 22, 2019 in Austria
European social insect conference comes to Austria: IST Austria hosts the next Central European IUSSI Meeting from March 19 – 22, 2019. The 2019 Conference...
Children in Denmark find new species of potentially invasive ant
Students who participated in a citizen science research project in Denmark detected Tetramorium immigrans, a new ant species in Denmark, which is potentially invasive. In...
All Nurture, no Nature: Division of labor at r = 1
In the recently published paper “Stress and early experience underlie dominance status and division of labour in a clonal insect”, Abel Bernadou, Lukas Schrader, Julia...
Muurahaiset. That’s ants in Finnish.
How is the ant society organized? How do ants communicate? Will these ants fight if I bring them together? Who will win? How come there...
A whole lot of zombies: parasitic manipulation in ants
In the recently published review paper “The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and their parasites: effects of parasitic manipulations and host responses on ant behavioral ecology” in...
How to dissect a superorganism
In the recently published paper “Temporal variation in social structure and worker reproduction in the temporary social parasite Lasius fuliginosus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)“, Tobias van Elst...
Amber insights: a putative ancestor “too early” and the legacy of Gennady M. Dlussky
In the recently published paper “A new extinct ant genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from the Late Eocene Rovno amber – a putative ancestor of the...
Ant research in the genomic era: advances and prospects
In the recently published review paper “Genes and genomic processes underpinning the social lives of ants” in Current Opinion in Insect Sciene (2018), Emeline Favreau,...
Invasive Northern Red Oaks benefit Temnothorax crassispinus ant colonies
In the paper “Invasive Northern Red Oaks benefit Temnothorax crassispinus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ant colonies” by Łukasz Myczko, Łukasz Dylewski, Sławomir Mitrus, and Tim H. Sparks...
